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Disdainful Hookups: a Powerful Social Determinant of Health
The health consequences of gender violence, a global health and social problem, are increasingly studied. Among its roots, research has identified a coercive dominant discourse imposing the idea that masculinities and relationships marked by abuse and domination are more attractive than egalitarian ones. To prevent the health consequences of gender violence, it is necessary to understand the factors that lead many adolescents to fall into it. This study aims to identify the specific mechanisms by which the coercive dominant discourse manifests in the peer group and its consequences for adolescents. Forty-one 15- and 16-year-old female adolescents from three high schools in Barcelona participated in the study. Eight communicative discussion groups were conducted to deepen on participants’ perceptions regarding how peer interactions promote the learning of attraction to violence in sexual-affective relationships. The results show that the participants perceived and experienced different types of coercion to have violent relationships in their peer group interactions. Those interactions fostered the reproduction of the association between sexual-affective attraction and males with aggressive attitudes and behaviors. Many peers coerce others to have disdainful hookups which have very negative health consequences for the victims, including suicidal ideation and committing suicide. Some peer groups become a risk developmental context for female adolescents as far as they foster the coercive dominant discourse, push some young women to engage in violent sporadic relationships, and even harass some others afterwards. This clarifies the importance of peer group-level interventions when addressing the health consequences of gender violence in adolescence.This article draws on the knowledge created by the coordinators of two research projects. One of them is the H2020 project ALLINTERACT: Widening and diversifying citizen engagement in science. This project was selected and funded by the European Commission under Grant Agreement N. 872396. The other one is the project MEMO4LOVE. Social interactions and dialogues that transform memories and promote sexual-affective relationships free of violence from high schools, selected and funded by the Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness under grant number EDU2016-75370-R. Open Access funding is provided by the University of Barcelona. Funding associated to the research group on Sociological Theory and Impact of Social Research.
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Gluing Ladders into Fishnets
We use integrability at weak coupling to compute fishnet diagrams for
four-point correlation functions in planar theory. The results are
always multi-linear combinations of ladder integrals, which are in turn built
out of classical polylogarithms. The Steinmann relations provide a powerful
constraint on such linear combinations, leading to a natural conjecture for any
fishnet diagram as the determinant of a matrix of ladder integrals.Comment: 6 pages, 4 figures; v2, minor corrrections, e.g. in fig. 2 captio
Symbol calculus and zeta--function regularized determinants
In this work, we use semigroup integral to evaluate zeta-function regularized
determinants. This is especially powerful for non--positive operators such as
the Dirac operator. In order to understand fully the quantum effective action
one should know not only the potential term but also the leading kinetic term.
In this purpose we use the Weyl type of symbol calculus to evaluate the
determinant as a derivative expansion. The technique is applied both to a
spin--0 bosonic operator and to the Dirac operator coupled to a scalar field.Comment: Added references, some typos corrected, published versio
Fractal diffusion coefficient from dynamical zeta functions
Dynamical zeta functions provide a powerful method to analyze low dimensional
dynamical systems when the underlying symbolic dynamics is under control. On
the other hand even simple one dimensional maps can show an intricate structure
of the grammar rules that may lead to a non smooth dependence of global
observable on parameters changes. A paradigmatic example is the fractal
diffusion coefficient arising in a simple piecewise linear one dimensional map
of the real line. Using the Baladi-Ruelle generalization of the
Milnor-Thurnston kneading determinant we provide the exact dynamical zeta
function for such a map and compute the diffusion coefficient from its smallest
zero.Comment: 8 pages, 2 figure
Bicovariant Quantum Algebras and Quantum Lie Algebras
A bicovariant calculus of differential operators on a quantum group is
constructed in a natural way, using invariant maps from \fun\ to \uqg\ , given
by elements of the pure braid group. These operators --- the `reflection
matrix' being a special case --- generate algebras that
linearly close under adjoint actions, i.e. they form generalized Lie algebras.
We establish the connection between the Hopf algebra formulation of the
calculus and a formulation in compact matrix form which is quite powerful for
actual computations and as applications we find the quantum determinant and an
orthogonality relation for in .Comment: 38 page
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